Whatdo do about recordings?

[foxhole]

Cheers all, I cancelled sky today so I have 31 days to find a replacement.

We have a hisense TV that although it mentions a recording facility I have not yet found how to actually do this, I suspect my model cannot do it.
(I have attached a suitable sized drive or two to it).

As for Freely, yes it's being hawked as a replacement for freeview, however there are no recording facilities on it.

I think I'm going to get the BRSK 500mb service, use my own Fritz Now!" router and just make do with freely until er indoors complains that she cannot find something on the catchup streaming sites.

Anything worth watching on sky will also be available on pirate bay too lol.

Have two Hisense tv’s both allow recording to memory stick .

 

[big-all]

Terrestrial is certainly not 2030 as one poster has suggested, but it is planned with in the 2030s unless there's some slippage.

thats me told lol
if it goes on till say 2034 i will be 83 and probably doolally or senile so the snow on the screen from no aeirial input will probably be stimulation enough

 

[davelx]

The problem with recording using a usb drive on a smart tv is that, unlike eg a Tivo, most of them (tvs) do not allow you to record one or two channels simultaneously whilst at the same time watching a third. However, since just about everything is available over the Internet on catch up, this is not the problem it once was.

 

[mattylad]

I think I have figured out that the PVR bit only works on freeview via an aerial signal which it does not have yet.
So I'll try that first.

It has 2 tuners so may not mean that it has to be on that same channel whilst recording.

 

[foxhole]

Haven’t recorded a program for years , what do you find to record?

 

[Mottie]

We have a lazy friend who pays a small fortune for cable so that she can just "Press R" to record shyte that she doesn’t have time to watch.

 

[pcaouolte]

Haven’t recorded a program for years , what do you find to record?

We don't watch anything live. Have a look at the TV guide on a Saturday morning and record everything that we will want to watch that week. Then watch the recordings at a time to suit us. Always something to watch, don't miss any episodes, can skip all adverts.

 

[Lucid]

We don't watch anything live. Have a look at the TV guide on a Saturday morning and record everything that we will want to watch that week. Then watch the recordings at a time to suit us. Always something to watch, don't miss any episodes, can skip all adverts.

^This.

I stream most of what I watch, but being forced to sit through adverts with Prime and ITVX is like going back in time 30 years.

 

[mattylad]

We don't watch anything live. Have a look at the TV guide on a Saturday morning and record everything that we will want to watch that week. Then watch the recordings at a time to suit us. Always something to watch, don't miss any episodes, can skip all adverts.

^^ This ^^ is how we watch tv.

Watch something streamed when its available, else we record stuff to watch later, adverts always get skipped.

Er indoors is still keen to get sky back though, I pointed out to her that the current offers are for streaming packages only without recording features. As most of what she recorded was on the beeb then afreeview recording box would work better, although looking at the freely epg, it looks sheite compared to sky's.

 

[flameport]

, I pointed out to her that the current offers are for streaming packages only without recording features.

In the near future, that is all Sky and every other TV company will offer.
Freely doesn't support recording, and while it currently uses both IP streaming and aerial reception, the intent is that it will be 100% IP only in the fairly near future, no TV aerial required.

The concept of recording items to view later is going away, along with the whole concept of broadcast linear TV.
Media companies want streaming so that they can massively restrict what people can watch and avoid advert skipping and the like.

 

[mattylad]

That does seem to be the way, I went to curries whilst visiting Ikea today, saw the Hisense so called expert customer person lol.
With no record button on my remote it means I cannot record, so it looks like the only way is to use an external box.

External boxes are becoming obsolete at some point but I thyink if I get one I'll have a few years yet.

No point paying sky for streaming as we have enough streaming ability as it is.
SWMBO is coming round to the idea of just streaming.

Having to watch adverts will be a pain in the derriere.

 

[JohnD]

In the near future, that is all Sky and every other TV company will offer.
Freely doesn't support recording, and while it currently uses both IP streaming and aerial reception, the intent is that it will be 100% IP only in the fairly near future, no TV aerial required.

The concept of recording items to view later is going away, along with the whole concept of broadcast linear TV.
Media companies want streaming so that they can massively restrict what people can watch and avoid advert skipping and the like.

We used to have machines that could record. It's probably still possible to make them.

I wonder if an old video or DVD recorder would still work.

 

[mattylad]

NO thanks John, although it would work I'm never going back to a VCR.

Now, a tape reel audio recorder I'll still use but thats just for fun (well, I would if I had one).